Marlborough Times. TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1880.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 111, 13 April 1880, Page 2

Marlborough Times. TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1880.

The Blenheim Rifle Volunteers will meet for drill this evening at half-past seven, after which a meeting will take place. Mr T. O'Sullivan will sell on Saturday next, a fine mob of cattle’ brought up from Clover Bay last week in the Lyttelton. The Appeal Court will sit at Wellington on the 10th of May next and the Divorce Court on the 17th. The Burgess Rolls for the Borough of Bleheim are open for inspection until the lfith-inst., for objections. The revision of the list will take place in the last week of April. The Nelson College football team intend challenging our players to a match in June, during the holidays. The College Cadets are also trying to arrange a rifle match with the cadets, to come off at the same time. A Gazette of the Sth instant notifies that the Native Land Court Department has been placed under the administration of the Minister of Justice from the Ist inst. Mr Penney calls attention by advertisement to the recent extensive alterations and improvements made at his hotel, which has been nearly all rebuilt, and now offers superior accommodation to visitors, families, and the public generally. The Spring Creek Volunteers have responued to the challenge from the Bienheim Company and the match is to take place at Spring Creek. Final arrangements will bo made by the Blenheim Company after drill

this evening. The conditions arc : —l2 men on each side ; Ranges. 200, 400, 000 and (500 yards, 7 allots at each range. The match will probably come off in a tew days. Irish Famine Relief Fund The. Town Clerk has received 10s fid frrtn'q M r Tlidnnis May. A draft for tP W td Was for. “warded by the last mail, making tv total of £BO 11s 7d collected by the Mayor and Council, the wholeol which liay been acknowledged in this journal. The fund is now closed. The subject for the Civil Service Literary prize of £5 for the best essay on the principles and practice of Parliamentary Government will this year be, “1 ho Developeinent of Constitutional Liberty in England,” Essays to be sent in on or before the .list December next. The Georgia Minstrel Troupe, comprising Rilly Wilson, Hosoa Easton, and other favorites with the patrons of this amusing kind of entertainment, will appear for a short season at the Lyceum Hall, commencing to-morrow, A full and varied bill of fare has been prepared for the occasion. Mu RaynkU lias returned from England with a large stock of Men’s, Youths’ and Roys’ clothing, tWeods, ladies’ dress materials in all the new and fashionable styles, flannels in great variety, French silk dresses colored and black. These goods have been purchased previous to the rise in wool, consequently they arc being sold at a very cheap rate, wholesale and retail, and can be seen,at bis private residence South- / side. To arrive shortly a large parcel of cutlery of all kinds. [Advt.] In our advertising columns will be found the programme of the Show to he held on the Agricultural Society’s ground, on Wednesday, the 21st instant. We hope to see every settler in the district exhibiting urnlar one of the numerous heads in the list, for if they do there can ho no doubt ■whatever of the Show proving a success. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company will give a Cup for the best merino cheep (not for the best sheep of any class.) The judges for merinos are Messrs ,T. R. W. Cook, Rayner, anil another. For sheep and pigs—Messrs Bell, Parker, and Draper : for horses—Messrs 11. Westmacott, T. Harding, and T. Redwood : for cattle—Messrs Lambert, Cliaytor and Graham, For poultry, grain, and other produce—Messrs Allen, T. Redwood, and H. Dodson. For bread, butter, cheese, jams, and Colonial wines—Messrs W. Litchfield, Welford, and G. Henderson. Stewards of horses—Messrs J. Redwood and P. Rush; cattle, P. o’Dwyer 5 sheep and pigs, Messrs C. Elliott and S. Gane. Poultry, grain and produce,Mr Higgs; bread, hiitter, jams, &c., Mr Gillespie. Ground Committee, Messrs Cook, Redwood, and Coulter. Mr P. Lawrence lias offered to discharge the duties of auctioneer gratuitouslo, giving his commission as a donation to the Society’s funds. In the evening there will be a dinner at Penney’s hotel at six o'clock. A meeting of creditors in the estate of B. Gopertli was held at the Court-house this morning, Mr T. O'Sullivan in the chair. The liabilities were set down at L 973, and the assets at L(iS7. Mr Sinclair appeared fertile debtor, and Mr McNab for Mr Jas. T. Robinson, a creditor, Mr Fildes of the Rank of New Zealand, offered a proof of debt of L2OO, which was objected to on the ground that the affidavit was informal. An angry discussion took place, Mr McNab tak ing up the cudgels for the Bank, and pointing out that whilst Mr Sinclair was objecting to this proof, lie was putting in another having the same blunder, on behalf of Mr Evans, which was not honest. Mr Sinclair objected to such a term as dishonesty being used to him, especially by such a person as Mr McNab. Mr Griffiths also protested against objections raised by Mr Sinclair, saying at a creditors’ meeting it was unfair to raise these legal quibbles, Mr Sinclair retorted that Mr Griffiths wanted to get the trusteeship of the estate. After further discussion Mr Stenhouse and Mr Griffiths were respectively proposed and seconded as Trustee. Mr Fildes’ proof of debt •was thrown out as informal, Mr McNab say ing lie should appeal to the Court. Mr Fildes after much discussion then put in a second proof of debt, which was also criticised by Mr Sinclair, and at his request thrown out by the Chairman. Mr Fildes said he had never witnessed a more disgraceful exhibition and that they ought to be ashamed of themselves. Mr Stenhouse was elected Trustee, and the meeting adjourned until Tuesday next, at eleven o’cclock, A meeting of the Committee of the Literary Institute was held on Friday evening last, at which were present Messrs Waddy, (President), in the Chair, Bushell, Smith, and Robinson. Accounts were passed amounting to £Ol ISs (id. It was resolved that a vote of thanks he passed to all persons who had assisted at the late conversazione (and that this be published in the local papers), and that an especial vote of thanks lie passed to the following gentlemen :—Messrs Chalmers, Header, Otto Heggnian, Ilerr Norberg, and his Band, and also to the newspaper proprietors. It was resolved that the Secretary’s salary ; should be increased by £lO a year, and that j the Reading Room should be open daily on weekdays from 10 o’clock a.in. to 4 p.m. I Some discussion took place as to whether the Institute should be opened also on Sundays, but no decision on this point was arrived at. A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated tho meeting. As stated briefly in our last issue, I 11 A.Eliur Sketehley ” will appear before a Blenheim audience on Friday and Saturday | next, the lOth and 17th instant, and it is certain that the visitors to Ewart’s Hall on this occasion will be ’well repaid. The laughter and applause which this great humourist has evoked from thousands of persons in the Old Country and abroad are unmistakeable evidence of his merits, and hi name is “ familiar asahousehold word ” loth at Home and in the Colonies. “Mrs Brown on her Travels,’ the leading feature of the entertainment, is described as an inimitable production of fun, which must he seen to be properly appreciated. An English contemporary, speaking of the entertainment says : “It is a long time since we have seen a cleverer impersonation of a general original chauacter than this of Mrs Brown. Mrs Brown herself is full of touches of character, of humour —broad, genuine humour —such ns we generally associate with Pickwick ; and Mr Skctchlev s picture of Mrs Brown is a splendid hit. The Victoria Rooms were packed last night and for a couple of hours Mr Sketehley kept everyone present on the laugh—many uproariously laughing—till it was a positive relief to find it was over. Mrs Brown on the Steamboat, Mrs Brown at Margate, and Mrs Brown at the Play, were equal to any tiling Charles Dickens has done, and the assembly marked its appreciation of the part, not only by laughter, but by hearty applause; No one who relishes a broad and characteristic piece of humour ought to miss Mrs Brown. Mr Sketehley is to reappear at the Rooms this evening, and we hope in the winter to see him here again ; for he is a genuine humourist, and acts as well as he writes.” Waggs went to the station of one of our railroads the other evening, and finding the seats all occupied, said in a loud tone,

“ Wily chis car isn’t going!” Of course these words caused a great stampede, rind Waggs took the best seat. Tile train soon moved oil'. In tho midst of the indignity tion the wag was Questioned. “You said the car wasn't going?” “ Well, it wasn’t then,” replied Waggs, “ but it is now.” One feature of the last eruption of Kil anea, the remarkable volcano in the Sandwich Islands, is the fact that the great molten lake of lava, occupying a huge cauldron nearly a mile in width, and known as the “South La e,” was drawn off subterraneously, giving no warning of its movements and leaving no visible indication of itspathway or tho place of its final deposit. The old process of replenishment which had gone on since tile last eruption in 1878 is reported to have begun again, and after another decade another disgorgement may take place. Hard times are felt in Dunedin, and the pinch must be severe to so effect the goods traffic department of the railway. The following is about tile lilostuhpi'ornisiitg bit of news that Inis reached us for many a day; I'lie Dunedin Times is responsible for it: — “The whole of the employes in the goodssheds at the Dunedin railway station have, through scantiness of traffic, been put upon three-quarter time. This is, we understand, felt as a considerable grievance by the men, who, in busy times, have to work a good deal of overtime, for which they get no extra pay.”

The following sad story is told by the Grey River Argus:-Tlie unfortunate Chinaman Ah Klim, who came to the Kumara Hospital some few days ago for advice, and who was pronounced a leper and was thence driven across tho river Tereinakau to his proper locale, has quietly saved his friends all trouble, by departing this life. On his arrival on this side of the boundary line between the two Counties, he was met by a policeman, who had received instructions through the County Chairman to provide a tent and provisions for the unfortunate man. This was done, and the constable left his charge apparently comfortable in his bunk. On the constable’s return yesterday morning lie found liis patient lying dead on the floor, having rolled out of his bunk when alone and unattended, and died there. We relate the facts as they have occurred, and ask—Where is our Christianity? or, if not humanity? to allow a fellow creature to die like a dog.?

Plain Speaking.—Mr Parnell, in a flimsy and utterly unsubstantiated letter to the Hew York Herald , asserts that the Queen of England caused a net lossof £GOOO for the alleviation of Ireland’s distress in 1847 by intimating to the Sultan of Turkey that lie should not contribute more than she intended to. We (San Francisco Newsletter) will not call Air Parnell a liar in this connection, because it would not read well but he will excuse us if we express our conviction that he is one. Queen Victoria has never been found wanting weighed in the balance of charity; and, munificent as she is in public affairs, in private almsgiving she is well known to be still more open-handed. It does not lie in a woman like her Majesty to intercept contributions in aid of even the most ungrateful subjects. Very remarkable changes have taken place during the forty-two years reign of Queen Victoria. She has outlived by-several year’s every bishop and judge whom she found seated on the benches in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Shelias witnessed the funeral of every Premier under her except Lord Beaconsfield and Air Gladstone. Not a single Cabinet r " her uncle and predecessor’s day now su. ives. Of the members of the Privy Council who sat in June, 1537, to administer to her the oath, only four survive. She has received the homage of four Archbishops of Canterbury four Archbishops of York, and five Bishops— Chichester, Lichfield Durham and two others successively. Shelias filled each of the Chief Justiceships twice at least;she lias received the addresses of four Speakers of the House of Commons. Shelias entrusted the Great Seal of the Kingdom to no less than nine Lord Chancellors.

Sixteen convers to Mormonism (says the N. Z. Hen Id) men and women, left by the mail ste ler City of New York for San Francisco, en route, to Utah. All these people are from the South, having coming up by the YVaitaki. Alost of them are from the neighbourhood of Timaru. They were seen on board, with their luggage, by Air J. J. Sorenson, who has beer, conducting the mission in Auckland for some time. One of the converts informed our reporter on the wharf that the New Zealand papers might abuse the Mormons as they liked, bat at all events, those who were leaving had paid every just debt, could look any man in the face, and if they chose could come back again without fear. The “ coal merchant,” so frequently referred to in the Timaru telegrams about the Mormon mission there, was evidently the leader of the party. He said that he believed in the religion of “twenty shillings in the pound,” and that in that respect the Alormons who were leaving formed a marked contrast- to some of the Gentilies who had occasion to leave the shores of New Zealand.

Air Charles Blutcher, C.C., of Dairy Flat, writes along letter referring to the subject of “The Eastern question and the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.” Air Blucher is decidedly opposed to the theory that the British people arc the descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel are takes special exception to the letters of Ak Fennel on the subject. Our spac prevents’us giving the letter in full, but as Mr BlncUer evidently thinks he has given Air Fennel a poser in the following questions, we give publicity to them. Firstly, Mr Blucher asks:—“ As-the history taught to every school child is that' the English public is a union of several tribes and nat ions amaglamatecl of the ancient Piets, Celts, Britons Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Normans, and by the later immigration of several other nations—which together formed the present British nation—can Air Fennel explain which of the above ancient tribes is paraded with the Israelitish tribe ? Penhaps the Piets are the sons of Ruben, or the Celts the sons of Simeon, or the Anglo-Saxon of Dan ; or how is it? Secondly : If this chosen people, the British Israelites, are now in possession of all the good things the Lord foretold through the prophets (according to Alt’ Fennel’s version), why is it that the poor Irish people are forgotten, or got such a scanty share of it, as the collection of the Irish relief fund was necessary to prevent their starving ? Thirdly: Is it not time that another prophet he sent to this blessed and chosen British-Israal nation to teach'ns poor sinners, so that the blessed lambs may not drink so much waipero, which causes so much fighting and a boxing, and lucrative employment to more thah fifty lawyers to settle the disputes ? Fourthly : Were the British nation at tho -present time to increase the national debt, would it be only for the sake of vain boasting, of having annexed and conquered the savage nations in fulfilment of the words of the prophets ? —or is it a dire necessity for the said nation to find a land and place on which to settle their overflowing population, or to find a ready market for their extensive trade and manufactures.?